بَارَكَbless

Example sentences

• قال الوزير بارك الله لك، وأين هذه الدار؟

  The minister said: May Allah bless it for you, and where is this house?

  بَارَكَ — bless. A past-tense verb used as a wish, 'may He bless', carrying its own subject slot for the divine name next. Arabic often phrases a blessing as a plain past verb that reads as a prayer, 'God bless...'.

  From: The Reward of Giving →

• ثُمَّ لَا يُصَلِّيُ فَلَا بَارَكَ اللَّهُ فِي هَذَا النَّمَطِ

  Then he does not pray; may God not bless this kind.

  بَارِّكَ — bless. A past-form verb used here not as a report but as a wish inside an imprecation: with the negator before it, 'may He not bless'. Arabic regularly turns the past form into a prayer this way, the surrounding supplication setting the wishful sense.

  From: Humility Over Fame →